Windows Phone - Dead man walking

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And Apple with its 16% share still takes in the lions share of the profits in the sector.

Don't forget, MS likely make more off Android than they do off WP due to licensing.  Every Android handset that gets sold, MS gets paid as well, as a general rule.

http://www.infoworld.com/t/android/microsoft-makes-more-android-windows-smartphones-707

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Only in John's alternate reality can selling 7 million phones in one quarter be considered a failure and "no one is using them".  Yes, that's how many Windows Phones were sold in Q1 2013 alone.  That's more windows phones sold in one quarter than all Amiga computers ever made.

The things might not be as widespread as the "everyone has one" Android phones, but I see a lot of people here with them.  Most people I've spoken with with them just love them, too.  I honestly see more people using the WP's up here than I do BB's, which is saying a lot, considering it is Canada and all.

But let's ignore facts, numbers and reality.  I'm sure the clamshell feature phone will cruise back into the scene and all things will be OK by some peoples standards  Then we can get onto more important things like banishing tablets worldwide and figuring out how to send TCP/IP packets by smoke signal.

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I'd seriously avoid Samsung phones in the future.

I had a S5 come to me recently as my work phone and the bloat on it was just too much to deal with, and the Samsung phones just seem to be getting worse and worse for feeling "cheap".

I disliked that S5 so much I grabbed my old HTC One (Google Edition, stock Android) and am now using it instead.  Yes, you heard me right - I'd rather use my older, personal phone that I paid for out of pocket for work than use their fancy S5, lol.  I just couldn't stand the S5, just bloated, cookie cutter engineering.  Sheer gimmickry - takes 45 minutes to disable all the goofy features they cram in and it still runs like crap.

My personal phone contract is up in a month or two and I'll likely go after the HTC One M8.  I wouldn't hesitate to look at a Windows Phone if there was a similar high end offering comparable to the One M8.  I'm not a camera guy, so most of the Nokia WP8 phones are of not much use to me.

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You can put Cyanogen on pretty much any phone and have better hardware than the cheap chinese phones coming out with it installed, like the OPPO or the oneplus.

Better yet, just buy a vanilla Android phone like the Nexus or one of the Motorola handsets.

Cyanogen isn't anything but a re-roll of Android.  A nice one, yes - but she's still Android.